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Poll: What do you usually use to transfer/deliver files?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 01:08
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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E-mail + WeTransfer Jul 7, 2022

Usually, in exactly the same way I have received the file(s), so e-mail for most of the files and WeTransfer for large and/or heavy documents.

neilmac
Christine Andersen
ahartje
expressisverbis
Bryce Benavides
Philip Lees
Josephine Cassar
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
iCloud Jul 7, 2022

iCloud via Airmail. It automatically generates a time-restricted link to large attachments that I send via e-mail.

If not via e-mail: I create a Dropbox link, e.g.:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hd6mqhopx0358ip/Jungheinrich%20vorkheftruck%20DE.pdf?dl=0

or:

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iCloud via Airmail. It automatically generates a time-restricted link to large attachments that I send via e-mail.

If not via e-mail: I create a Dropbox link, e.g.:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hd6mqhopx0358ip/Jungheinrich%20vorkheftruck%20DE.pdf?dl=0

or:

https://bit.ly/3NNkQyE
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neilmac
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 02:08
Spanish to English
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E-mail Jul 7, 2022

Mostly by email, but one of my direct (non-agency) clients also has a platform specifically for their software strings, and that's what we use for that.

And any agencies I've ever worked with have used e-mails rather than a specific online platform.


Josephine Cassar
 
Barbara Cochran, MFA
Barbara Cochran, MFA  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 20:08
Spanish to English
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Nice And Simple Jul 7, 2022

Book translations, always through email. But someone just contacted me within the last 15 minutes about working for them on a daily basis. If everything works out, that work will be submitted through a platform.

 
Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
Germany
Local time: 02:08
Member (2020)
English to German
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Client portals Jul 7, 2022

Mostly XTRF and Plunet nowadays, followed by the odd Memsource job delivered directly through the tool. My last customer to send and receive everything by email (or WeTransfer for files larger than 20 MB) has not contacted me since March.

expressisverbis
 
Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray  Identity Verified
Netherlands
Local time: 02:08
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Either or? Jul 7, 2022

50% e-mail, 30% client's portal, 20% online CAT tool

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Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:08
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Horse and cart Jul 7, 2022

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Baran Keki
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Barbara Cochran, MFA
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John Silva
John Silva
Brazil
Local time: 21:08
English to Portuguese
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It depends Jul 7, 2022

Mostly, I deliver via email, but some clients have vendor portals, so I have to deliver it there. Not so often, I deliver via Drive when the file is big.

 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 01:08
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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@Tom Jul 7, 2022

You just gave me an idea...

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Tom in London
Baran Keki
Barbara Cochran, MFA
Platary (X)
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:08
Member (2008)
Italian to English
email Jul 7, 2022

On the subject of email:

I'm still looking for a *reliable* email client, because the ones I've been using are not.

AppleMail (which comes as part of the MacOS) frequently fails to connect to my provider's mail servers, sometimes for days and days;
Thunderbird always connects reliably to my provider's mail servers, but it has a very nasty habit of suddenly losing emails - or entire subfolders of emails - that completely disappear and cannot be found;
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On the subject of email:

I'm still looking for a *reliable* email client, because the ones I've been using are not.

AppleMail (which comes as part of the MacOS) frequently fails to connect to my provider's mail servers, sometimes for days and days;
Thunderbird always connects reliably to my provider's mail servers, but it has a very nasty habit of suddenly losing emails - or entire subfolders of emails - that completely disappear and cannot be found;
Webmail (of my provider, TalkTalk) - reliable but with a very poor UI.

I'm looking for something better. Any suggestions?
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Aline Amorim
Aline Amorim  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 21:08
English to Portuguese
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Email and The agency platform Jul 7, 2022

Mostly, I deliver via email, but three clients have vendor portals.

 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 01:08
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
+ ...
A few that I use: Jul 7, 2022

Email
We Transfer
YouSendIt
Send Anywhere
OneDrive
Clients' platforms
CAT Tools (e.g. Trados GroupShare)


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Wolfgang Schoene
Wolfgang Schoene  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 02:08
Member (2007)
English to German
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E-Mail clients Jul 8, 2022

Tom in London wrote:

On the subject of email:

I'm still looking for a *reliable* email client, because the ones I've been using are not.

AppleMail (which comes as part of the MacOS) frequently fails to connect to my provider's mail servers, sometimes for days and days;
Thunderbird always connects reliably to my provider's mail servers, but it has a very nasty habit of suddenly losing emails - or entire subfolders of emails - that completely disappear and cannot be found;
Webmail (of my provider, TalkTalk) - reliable but with a very poor UI.

I'm looking for something better. Any suggestions?



On top of the mail clients you mentioned I have Postbox 2, Canary Mail (end-to-end-encrypted; nice feature is notifying that the mail you sent has been read), Outlook (requires a subscription to Office 365), Airmail (very complex, very complete, 10,99 €/year). All these are on the Mac side. Currently, I use Thunderbird 102.0.1. I cannot confirm the problems you mention.
On the Windows side I have The Bat 10.

And, to answer the question of this poll, I usually use a mail client to transfer files. I often have very heavy audio files to send, in this case I use Wetransfer or I put them in my Dropbox and send a link to the customer for download.

[Edited at 2022-07-08 06:16 GMT]


Tom in London
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:08
Member (2008)
Italian to English
? Jul 8, 2022

Wolfgang wrote:

Currently, I use Thunderbird 102.0.1.


The latest release of Thunderbird is 91.11.0 (Mac) so I assume you must be referring to the Windows version.

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[Edited at 2022-07-08 14:44 GMT]


 
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